5 posts from March 2007

So, for the next few days I am in Atlanta, GA, editing the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four Tournament. My job will be to take the photos from our photographer, ingest them into our editing program, and then weed through them to finally send them to the office in a reasonable amount of time. The first game is Saturday night around 6 P.M.,

Georgetown vs. Ohio State. The good part is that whoever wins or loses, I'm still stuck in Atlanta till my flight out on Tuesday afternoon. I don't think this is bad at all, after all, I'm in a pretty pimp hotel.

Congressional Cemetery? Dog Park? We kept hearing about it, but never checked it out.  Thought it was quite odd, but, this is DC, right?  Well, yesterday we made the short 1 mile trip over to get the scoop. Lo and behold, there it was, a HUGE cemetery filled with dogs running around, although, as the sign implied, this is not a public dog park.  This little rule didn't stop Kelly and I from giving it a try before we even considered a "membership." Luna had a blast, she met so many new dogs and we got to let her run around without worrying about her running into traffic. To be able to walk your dog at the cemetery, the group asks for a yearly donation (about $150) to help with the up keep the historic grounds, which is a pretty neat place. I figure the people who run the cemetery would rather prefer it is filled with dogs than drug dealers, which it was before it became a place for dogs. Although, it was a bit strange to watch Luna poop right to next to a tombstone from 1864.  

Apparently voice recognition has a long way to go, I'd recommend when you talk to a computer (yeah, that sounds weird right?), be concise, unlike Paul Seth whose "Umm's" and "I believes" whips American Airlines computer system into a binary short-bus riding frenzy.

So, we're currently sitting in the theater at gallery place waiting for black snake moan to start. On our way here we were accosted by a viking handing out hand sannitizer on the corner near Chinatown. Don't be frightened for us, it was a marketing stunt for The History Channel's new Viking special which airs tonight at 9 pm. Pretty cool if you ask me.

So, I'm trying out Twitter, another Web 2.0 startup that is basically an away-message system for your life, or that is at least how I understand it. You can send updates from the web, IM, or via text messages on your cell phone. Its got great depth and you can follow updates on all your friends or just certain people and those updates can be sent to your mobile device or IM client. You can check out my updates below.